Career choices among Saudi medical students

Academic Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-67

  Al Faris, Eiad ^a   Kalantan, Khalid ^a   Al Rowais, Norah ^a   Balla Al Nour, Mohammed Al Mahdi ^a   Al Umran, Khalid ^b   Kabraah, Mohammed Tawfiq ^c   Badwi, Ibrahim ^e   Jarallah, Jamal S ^a,d  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STUDENT; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 0031038915     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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